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Gerald Clayton

Gerald was born on May 11, 1984 in Utrecht, The Netherlands and moved to the United States at a young age. He graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) in the summer of 2002 and received a Bachelor's of Music from the Jazz Studies program at USC in the Fall of 2006. Gerald grew up in a musical family (his father is bassist/composer John Clayton and his uncle saxophonist Jeff Clayton) and was exposed to a variety of musical styles from a very young age. He studied classical piano with Mrs. Linda Buck and jazz piano and composition with Shelly Berg, Kenny Barron and Billy Childs. Gerald was the winner of the 2001 Music Center Spotlight Awards and received the 'Outstanding Soloist' Award during the Monterey High School Jazz Competition in 2001 and 2002

Alone

By Wayne Escoffery

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Moments with You; Alone; Rapture; The Ice Queen; The Shadow of Your Smile; Blues for D.P.; Stella by Starlight; Since I Fell for You.

Motion I

By Gerald Clayton

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ofafrii; Synchrony; Radical; Aspiring to Normalcy; Second Day; Gabaldon’s Glide; Bird’s Luck.

Mike Jurkovic's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Mike Jurkovic
December 5, 2024

It has been, to say the least, one hell of fright night year. But here is the music that stayed with me, through thick and thin, and all manner of human foible and political upheaval. Vijay IyerCompassion ECM Records Kris Davis

Out Of/Into: Motion I

by Mike Jurkovic
December 1, 2024

Most supergroups happen and barely dent the dust. Despite those odds, one or two happen for a reason. That reason is  Motion I  by Out Of/Into. Formerly known as The Blue Note Quintet--pianist Gerald Clayton, alto saxophonist  Immanuel Wilkins, vibraphonist Joel Ross, drummer Kendrick Scott, and bassist Matt Brewer--hijack the lead track “Ofafrii" with a brazen romp of ...

Bill Frisell Four al Naima Jazz Club di Forlì

by Maurizio Comandini
November 21, 2024

Bill Frisell Four Naima Jazz Club Forlì 31 ottobre 2024 Bill Frisell al Naima Jazz Club di Forlì è una bella conferma di come il jazz di respiro internazionale sappia trovare percorsi e situazioni anche al di fuori delle grandi città. Il chitarrista americano, 73 anni ben portati, è in tour ...

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2024

by Thomas Conrad
November 18, 2024

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2024 Dom Omladine Beograda, MTS Dvorana Belgrade, Serbia October 24-28, 2024 It is possible that, of all the major cities of Europe, the least understood in the Western world is jny: Belgrade, Serbia. In the 1990's, when the wars in the former Yugoslavia were raging, Serbia was a ...

At Monterey Jazz Festival 67, Jazz Gospel According to a New Head

by Josef Woodard
October 11, 2024

Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey, CA September 27-29, 2024 Getting a semblance of a summarizing angle on a densely-programmed jazz festival, which the 67th Monterey Jazz Festival most certainly was, can be tricky business. The equation gets more complex with a festival geared towards covering many genre and sub-genre bases within ...

Moments With You

August 30, 2024

Album: Alone
By Wayne Escoffery
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 06:31

The 20th Anniversary DC JazzFest

by Jerome Wilson
September 19, 2024

2024 DC JazzFest Potomac Riverfront Washington, DC August 31 to September 1, 2024 Being the birthplace of Duke Ellington among other things, Washington, DC has had a long tradition as a hotbed for jazz, and been the site of several ambitious jazz festivals over the years. The most prominent one currently ...